Would you trust Google if they said so? And also why would there be evidence of government doing things behind your back. Wouldn't that compromise national security? It only ever pops up when it doesn't matter, so I guess it's okay?

https://www.axios.com/2023/12/06/apple-google-requests-push-notification-data

https://theintercept.com/2017/02/22/how-peter-thiels-palantir-helped-the-nsa-spy-on-the-whole-world/

It's not like Apple has a history to bowing down to authoritarians.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/17/technology/apple-china-censorship-data.html

Welp, that all looks clean to me. Thank Tim Apple for the golden gift to the emperor. They're totally not bending the knee or assisting surveillance to make the their stonks go up. They're very principled.

They said so, and there's literally no evidence against it. 😉😉